By The Sea Hut by Koji Mori
By The Sea Hut is a minimal home located in Zushi, Japan, designed by Koji Mori of we inc. Architect Studio. The morning light slides through the wide-open eastern frame like water finding its level, transforming a modest Japanese house into a living instrument that measures the day’s passage.
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Bay House Matthew by Amalia Graziani
Bay House Matthew is a minimal home located in Amagansett, New York, designed by Amalia Graziani of Noor Property Group. In the weathered patina of reclaimed driftwood, Graziani discovered not decay but possibility – a material narrative that would define an entire design philosophy.
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Inner Shaping by Rulersdesign
Inner Shaping is a minimal apartment located in Taipei, Taiwan, designed by Rulersdesign. The designer’s radical intervention strips away the conventional three-room layout, replacing it with what might best be understood as a “1.5-room configuration” – a bold departure that transforms necessity into poetry.
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Casa dels Estels by ENDALT Arquitectes
Casa dels Estels is a minimal home located in Albal, Spain, designed by ENDALT Arquitectes. The project’s material narrative unfolds through what might be called “selective archaeology” – a methodical process of distinguishing authentic heritage from misguided additions. The architects approached the rammed earth walls and solid brick construction with surgical precision, removing the damaged pallissa and poorly conceived bathroom addition while preserving the spatial DNA that had evolved over generations.
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Gits Berg by T J I P interior architects
Gits Berg is a minimalist home located in Hooglede, Belgium, designed by T J I P interior architects. The project’s most compelling achievement lies in its material honesty. Rammed earth walls rise with geological patience, their stratified surfaces bearing witness to an ancient building technique that predates industrial construction by millennia.
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Palenqe by DIIR
Palenqe is a minimal space located in Madrid, Spain, designed by DIIR. The project’s focus lies in its commitment to programmatic rebellion. Rather than submitting to the tyranny of fixed function, Palenqe operates as a sophisticated game board where activities emerge organically from the architecture itself.
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West 13th Street by Studio Gillett
West 13th Street is a minimalist apartment located in the West Village, New York, designed by Studio Gillett in collaboration with Wiskup Architecture. The project begins with an act of architectural archaeology. Those 13-foot ceilings and original plaster moldings are not merely preserved but activated as compositional elements, their historic proportions establishing a dialogue with carefully chosen modern interventions.
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Fitzroy North Residence by Alessia Ferrarini
Fitzroy North Residence is a minimal house located in Fitzroy North, Australia, designed by Alessia Ferrarini. In the corner of a narrow Melbourne terrace, a fragment of original lime plaster clings to weathered brick, its surface mapping decades of domestic life through hairline cracks and gentle undulations.
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Aberdeen Park House by Neil Dusheiko Architects
Aberdeen Park House is a minimal home located in London, United Kingdom, designed by Neil Dusheiko Architects. At first glance, the house appears to have grown organically from its Islington context, the new brick extension echoing the industrial forms of nearby Victorian warehouses. Yet this apparent simplicity masks a sophisticated understanding of light, air, and human habitation.
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Paix by Mersi
Paix is a minimalist home located in Paris, France, designed by Mersi. Simon Mimoun and his team at Mersi understood something fundamental about this former hotel: its apparent flaw was actually its greatest asset. “Our profession allows us to work in exceptional buildings which are part of Paris’s architectural and historical heritage,” Mimoun reflects.
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Sete Apartment by Arthur Casas
Sete Apartment is a minimal apartment located in São Paulo, Brazil, designed by Arthur Casas. The terrazzo’s journey through the space speaks to a deeper understanding of how craft traditions can anchor contemporary living. This composite material, born from Venetian ingenuity and perfected through generations of Italian craftsmen, finds new expression in Casas’s hands.
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Runqi by YWB DESIGN STUDIO
Runqi is a minimal apartment located in Shanghai, China, designed by YWB DESIGN STUDIO. This project emerges from a distinctly Chinese interpretation of Scandinavian minimalism, where the warmth of natural wood becomes an antidote to urban alienation. The owners’ brief was deceptively simple: create genuine comfort and relaxation.
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Hampstead Passivhaus by GS Architecture
Hampstead Passivhaus is a minimal home located in London, United Kingdom, designed by GS Architecture. The architects approached this Victorian semi-detached home like master craftspeople working within the grain of the wood rather than against it. Where contemporary practice often favors wholesale replacement, here preservation and innovation dance in careful balance.
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Sasaoka Apartment by NEWOLD
Sasaoka Apartment is a minimalist apartment located in Fukuoka, Japan, designed by NEWOLD. In this renovated condominium perched on a hillside, the architect has achieved something rare in contemporary residential design: a space that breathes through subtraction rather than addition.
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Orior Penthouse by Orior
Orior Penthouse is a minimalist penthouse in One Domino Square located in Brooklyn, New York, designed by Orior, with architecture by Selldorf Architects. Within the penthouse, Orior has achieved what many design houses struggle to accomplish: the seamless translation of regional craft traditions into a thoroughly modern luxury vocabulary.
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